ESCAPE - Gannon

Gannon · Mar 2013

Starting a thread, Hopefully I can finish this. Getting ready to drive from Florida to Montreal with my wife and cats half way through this Challenge.

So Here's the game plan.

Step one - Find the arts.
Step two - Test the arts.
Step three - ???
Step four - Profit!

tehrobster2 · Mar 2013

Well good luck dude, your reference looks awesome so far

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mtthwcmpbll · Mar 2013

Curious - is the bottom reference pic from Destiny as well? Very cool stuff collected here.

Gannon · Mar 2013

Thanks guys,

No idea, I pretty much just took a trip down the rabbit hole and many links later gathered all the resources before you.

I'm RnD'ing at the moment on cameras in UDK. If anyone knows how to do a Fixed position camera that includes camera rotation or player tracking in UDK using Kismet I'd appreciate the tips. lol Coding in many forms is just beyond me unfortunately

DLoud · Mar 2013

Cool stuff man!

I remember the jazz jackrabbit ios tutorial having some similiar camera stuff you may be able to modify. Hope it helps:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5IxyZ_hj54"]Jazz Jackrabbit UDK iOS Tutorial Video - YouTube[/ame]

Gannon · Mar 2013

Yeah, Top down I can do. I'm trying to achieve something similar to a security camera that will track movement of a player from a fixed location in the corner or something.

So far i've got this set up

but it doesn't actually follow the player. :-/ Noodling around with it a bit more to test some theories.

*edit*

Cut the kismet sequence down the the bare basic require nodes. I keep getting this error

"Obj UTPawn_88 has no handler for SeqAct_CameraLookAt_6"

To the googles!

*edit 2*

So more traveling down the rabbit hole has led me to this -

http://www.3dbuzz.com/forum/threads/162068

I'm going to try and import a model, convert to interp actor, hard attach the camera to the interp actor. and hopefully it will work?

McGreed · Mar 2013

Maybe this thread can help:

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/750868-UDK-action-game-3rd-person-camera-code

Jeff Parrott · Mar 2013

Looking forward to some awesome Gannon. Like the concept you have in place.

Gannon · Mar 2013

Thanks Jeff, I've got lots of RnD to do before I get to the cool stuff though.

McGreed, Yeah - I came across this thread in my search. I don't want to mess with code and this is a fancy third person camera that follows the player, I need mine stationary. Something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&v=D5PdCuEEAlQ&NR=1

Kismet or bust!

McGreed · Mar 2013

Well then, you might try this one out, which has that as an objective I believe.

http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categories/wold-members-tutorials/petebottomley/udk-kismet-introduction.php

And might find something here as well:

http://forums.epicgames.com/threads/726604-Tutorial-How-to-use-udk-3rd-person-cam

shabba · Mar 2013

I think you could try using a 'LookAt' group in the properties of your matinee for a camera, and can point it at the player.

So it will always point the actor of the group using a LookAt to another group you specify. Therefore you would want to create an empty group with no tracks that has a reference to a player variable. And the Camera group, through LookAt, is pointing to the blank player group.

I haven't done this in awhile, but I think its still functional.

Gannon · Mar 2013

Shabba I could fucking kiss you right now. Walk through soon to come. The key part that I was missing was the "Look At Group Name" in the movement track properties.

Gannon · Mar 2013

Haven't been able to set up a video capture session for the tutorial on how to set up the camera just yet but I promise it will come soon.

I've been working on some design exploration in the mean time. Trying to mix sci-fi with some very subtle art deco aspects.

I think I need to find some more reference but I'm thinking of exploring some old cruise liners instead?

Slowly chipping away at this. I want to make sure I get something that feels good and looks believably functional. Not just a bunch of noise.

RogelioD · Mar 2013

can't wait to see your arts!

Mask_Salesman · Mar 2013

Killer reference dude, lookin forward to see how you put it to use

ESCAPE - Gannon

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